June Brown, the beloved actress who played Dot Cotton in EastEnders, asked her former co-star Lord Michael Cashman for help in securing an assisted death, he has revealed. The peer shared this detail during a House of Lords debate on assisted dying, as the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill fell on Friday afternoon.
Ms Brown, who famously portrayed the chain-smoking launderette worker in the long-running BBC soap, made the plea to Lord Cashman before her death in 2022. Lord Cashman starred alongside Ms Brown during his spell on the show in the late 1980s. Notably, Ms Brown's character, Dot Cotton, was central to a major euthanasia storyline in 2000, assisting fellow Albert Square resident Ethel Skinner in her final moments after a terminal cancer diagnosis.
